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Tennis, anyone? The now famous drawing-room comedy line was delivered back in the '20s by a young actor named Humphrey Bogart. He projected an image of white-flanneled, upper-crust tennis player that lingers to this day. Yet in the last few years millions of Americans of every age, class and color have taken up the game. The number of outdoor courts is increasing at the rate of 4,600 a year, and indoor facilities have doubled since 1969 to more than 500. By all accounts, tennis is the fastest growing participant sport of the 1970s...
...starred in a Broadway hit play about a recently divorced nebbish with an acute inability to score. The show, not surprisingly, coincided with the breakup of his marriage to Louise Lasser. Play It Again. Sam-even brighter in the film than onstage-features the visible shade of Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, plus several unseen ghosts. "I never had a teacher who made the least impression on me," Woody says. "If you ask me who are my heroes, the answer is simple and truthful: George S. Kaufman and the Marx Brothers." In Play It Again, Sam, they are all over...
...African Queen. The classic Huston-Agee riverboat romance, with an illiterate Humphrey Bogart and missionary Katherine Hepburn chugging their way through a German-filled Congo during World War I. Also, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman's poetic, authentic northwestern--an excruciatingly honest love story. HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. McCabe: 2:15, 6, 9:40; Queen...
...Have and Have Not. Bogart is an anti-Vichy gun-runner; Bacall, in her screen debut, gets to tell him if-you-need-anything-just-whistle. Forget Hemingway (the filmmakers did), but Faulkner helped write the script. Howard Hawks directed. Bogart is "Nietszche in dungarees" and Bacall's come-ons are hilarious. UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY. 105 Emerson Hall: Wednesday, 7:30 and 9:30. Admission...
...Maltese Falcon, a 1941 Bogart classic. Brattle Theatre. 6:15, 9:35. With the 1932 I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang. 8, weekend...